Afshin Beheshti, of the University of Pittsburgh's new Center for Space Biomedicine, discusses how space biomedicine helps us understand human health.

Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

He joined government officials, representatives from NASA and industry leaders in the state capital to discuss Pennsylvania’s future as a national aerospace leader.

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Today, during the second annual Aerospace Day at the state Capitol, the Shapiro-Davis Administration highlighted their support for Pennsylvania's aerospace and aviation industry, in partnership with l...

Human settlements on the Moon, crewed missions to Mars and space tourism will become a reality in the next few decades. Human presence in space, espec…

Radiation from space affects the brain, bones, and genes. These two astronauts will soon begin their recovery

The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth's confines causes many physiological changes that affect an astronaut's health.

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.

npj Microgravity - Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review

According to Afshin Beheshti, PhD, President of the COVID-19 International Research Team and Professor of Surgery and Computational and Systems Biology, Director of the Space Biomedicine Program, and ...

Alum Afshin Beheshti researches the effect of space travel on human beings.

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Lethal COVID-19 outcomes are attributed to classic cytokine storm. We revisit this using RNA sequencing of nasopharyngeal and 40 autopsy samples fr...

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Exposure to space environment (ESE) profoundly impacts the epigenome as marked by DNA hypomethylation to induce rodent genomic plasticity in responders. Non-responders fail to respond to adaptive cues...

To be able to understand how spaceflight can affect human biology, there is a need for maximizing the amount of information that can be obtained from experiments flown to space. Recently there has bee...